Introduction -- Part One On The Origins Of The Problem -- Chapter I The Origin Of The Problem And Of The Term Connotation: The Thirteenth And The Fourteenth Century -- Background -- Aspects Of The Theory Of The Proprietates Terminorum -- William Of Ockham'S Concept Of Connotation -- Ockham'S Theory Of Signs -- Ockham'S Doctrine As A Starting Point For The Demarcation Of The Problem Of Connotation -- The Modus Adiacentis, Or Mode Of Adherence, In Thomas Of Erfurt'S Speculative Grammar -- Chapter Ii The Emergence Of The Problems Of The Concept Of Connotation: The Fifteenth To The Seventeenth Century -- Background -- The Substantive-Adjective Distinction Upheld -- The Usage And Meaning Of Connotation In The Port-Royal Grammaire And Logique -- The Introduction Of The Concepts Of Comprehension And Extension -- The Additional Meaning Of Words: Accessory Ideas And Affective Nuances -- Chapter Iii The Incorporation Of The Antithetical Pair Denotation-Connotation Into Modern Logic: The Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries -- James Mill: The Inversion Of The Mediaeval Usage Of The Meaning Of Connotation -- John Stuart Mill: The Introduction Of Denotation And Connotation Into Logic -- The Passage Of Denotation And Connotaion Into Twentieth Century Logic -- The Development Of The Concept Of Connotation In Mathematical Logic -- Examples Of Distinctions Concerning The Concepts Of Denotation And Connotation -- Chapter Iv Other Tendencies: Meaning As Association Of Ideas, Connotation As Association Of Ideas, As Emotive Meaning And As The Creation Of Concepts -- John Locke: The Speaker And The Hearer In English Empiricism -- Ogden And Richards: The 'Triangular' Delimitation Of Meaning -- Marshall Urban'S Connotations -- The Possible Origin Of The View Of Connotation As 'Additional Meaning' -- The Technical Usage Of Connotation In Experimental Psychology.

Part Two On The Problem Of Connotation In Linguistics -- Chapter V Delimitations Of The Linguistic Sign And Limitations Of Meaning As The Object Of Study -- The Major Philosophical Distinctions -- The Usage Of Logical And Grammatical Suppositions In Linguistics -- A Further Limitation To The Study Of Meaning: Lexicology -- Stephen Ullmann'S Adaptation Of The Ogden-Richards Triangle -- Kurt Baldinger'S Opinion Of The Triangle Theory -- The Invalidity Of The Triangle Theory In Linguistic Semantics -- Klaus Heger'S Trapeze -- A Misinterpretation Of Saussure'S Course: The So-Called Consubstantiality Or Solidarity Of The Sign -- Katz And Fodor. An Example Far From The Triangle Tradition -- Chapter Vi Connotation In Linguistics -- Bloomfield'S Understanding Of Connotation And His Conception Of Meaning -- Hjelmslev: Connotation, Connotators, And Connotative Semiotics -- Mounin'S Study Of Connotation -- Martinet: Cultural And Aesthetic Connotations -- Greimas'S Treatment Of Connotation As The 'Sociology Of Common Sense' -- Pottier: The Virtueme And Connotation -- Gary-Prieur'S Classifications -- Prieto: Style And Connotation -- Further Uses Of Connotation -- Chapter Vii Instances Of The Use Of Connotation In Semiotics And Literary Criticism -- Eco'S Use Of Connotation In Semiotics -- Cohen And Barthes: Connotation In Literary Criticism -- Kerbrat Orecchioni'S Views On Connotation -- Chapter Viii Connotation: The Contrast Between Systematic And Asystematic Facets In The Description Of Meaning In Natural Languages -- Meaning And Connotation: Problems -- Three Significant Distinctions Derived From Philosophy -- Classification Of Problems Arising From The Opposition Between Denotation And Connotation -- Group 1. Primary Or Unique Meaning Versus Secondary Or More Than One Meaning -- Group 2. Cognitive Meaning Versus Other Kinds Of Meaning.

Group 3. Direct Reference Versus Indirect Reference -- Group 4. Fixed Meaning Versus Variable Or Free Meaning -- Group 5. Homogeneous Or Systematic Information Versus Heterogeneous Or Asystematic Information -- Group 6. Central Or Essential Information Versus Additional, Secondary, Or Complex Information: Style -- Group 7. Literal Meaning Versus Metaphoric Or Figurative Meaning -- Group 8. A Synchronic View Of Meaning Versus A Diachronic View Of Meaning -- Group 9. Linguistic Meaning Versus Non-Linguistic Meaning -- Final Remarks -- Bibliography And Abbreviations -- Index Of Names -- Index Of Subjects.